Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Georg Baum a écrit : >> I fear you both underestimate the amount of work that is needed to >> replace the auto stuff. After all, there is a reson why it is so >> complicated. > > I don't think we underestimate it.
So you are willing to work on nothing else for the next three months? > But I really think that the auto > stuff checks for _way_ two many things. I agree. Why do we need a fortran compiler? > Now that we are using portable > library like boost most of the test are really not needed at all. So > porting only what make sense on a case by case basis should not be too > much work IMHO. > IMHO, a really worth project before we get rid of scons is to get rid of > most dependencies of config.h in current source code. I don't think so. This is almost impossible to do right (since you need to test a lot of platforms for most of which you don't have access to), and I don't see any benefit. config.h is a good thing, you can add global configuration stuff and cater for system differences. > IMHO you overestimate the number of files that get added to LyX source > code, I reckon it is not more that once a week. I don't think I overestimate the number of files that get added. I agree that it is not big, but: If you have two lists to maintain this will either not happen (again: look at development/Win32/lyx.vcproj), or it will cost additional time. My experience (not only from LyX) is that sooner or later one list gets out of date. Another example is configure.py vs. configure.m4. There were not many changes when they still coexisted, but in almost all cases a reminder message was needed by Jean-Marc or me to sync them. Georg
